Excerpt from Twentieth Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the St. Louis Public Schools: For the Year Ending August 1, 1874 In connection with the Library I would mention, with approval, the efforts of the Art Society in cultivating the taste of the community, by collecting autotype copies of the works of the great masters, and placing them on permanent exhibition in the reading-room of the Library. The introduction of drawing into the district schools as one of the regular branches of instruction, has been attended with happy results. The coming year, new impetus will be given to it by its systematic adoption throughout all grades of the day and evening schools. The proud position which our city has achieved as the third manufacturing city in the nation, demands of us close attention to this branch of study as an indispensable preparation for industrial arts and trades. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.